Eighteenth-Century Manners of Reading: Print Culture and Popular Instruction in the Anglophone Atlantic World

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Year of Publication
2017
Contributors Author: Eve Tavor Bannet
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Number of Pages
298 pp.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
City
New York, NY
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ISBN
9781108419109
Annotation

Examines how reading was taught and guides to reading for children and adults in Britain and the United States. 

Contents: 

  • Introduction: the schoolroom in the marketplace
  • The ABCs of reading
  • Arts of reading
  • Polite reading
  • Ordinary discontinuous reading
  • Reading secret writing